bloobeary:Stopping the votes from being counted is how the GOP got Dubya elected. It's like they're playing their greatest hits.

They also prevented a LOT of people from voting, fyi. 180,000 provisional ballots were tossed compared to 32,000 in 2012. HALF of them were black voters despite them only making up 11% of the population (at the time).

The suit filed Wednesday by four county Republican parties alleges that the state's 15 county recorders don't follow a uniform standard for allowing voters to adjust problems with their mail-in ballots, and that two counties improperly allow those fixes after Election Day.

Pincy:Here in Oregon we manage to verify signatures as the ballots come in, not after the election is over. WTF is wrong with you other states?

Arizona allows early ballots to be handed-in at any polling place. Honestly I did not know that there was an issue with signature validation, we used to do just this because it was easier than standing in line and having to remember which things on the ballot (don't forget we have judicial elections!) we wanted to vote in favor of or against. When there's a slate of fifty judges to go through in addition to the federal, state, county, school district, special-district, and municipal questions it takes an awful long time to vote in-person.

If they allow day-of hand-ins, then they need to count all of the ballots turned in that way, regardless of how long that takes, and they need to have the same signature-verifications procedures as the early-turned-in ballots.

If Democrats complain about a voting procedure, it's somehow always too late and too close to the election to fix it, no matter how egregious the problem or how many judges order it fixed.But Republicans expect their complaints to get attention immediately, even after the election.

Stile4aly:I voted by mail. If the Democrats or ACLU need a client for the purpose of challenging this attempted voter suppression, I'm happy to assist.

At least Maricopa County allows you to check your ballot status online. If yours comes up as having been accepted and signature matched, you would probably be found to have no standing. You'd need to be one of the voters whose ballot was questioned, and my guess is they'd simply magically approve your ballot if you tried to join that suit, to again, give you no standing.

stan unusual:The suit filed Wednesday by four county Republican parties alleges that the state's 15 county recorders don't follow a uniform standard for allowing voters to adjust problems with their mail-in ballots, and that two counties improperly allow those fixes after Election Day.

Smells like some Bush league shiat to me.

Republicans are defending this by claiming their preferred solution is that all the counties go by the more forgiving standard, but since they didn't already before votes started being tossed there is no choice but use the strict rules in those two counties.